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Do you have a favorite bread or food related...

Do you have a favorite bread or food related...

I was sitting here playing fetch with my cat, One Spot, and I started to think about quotes....

Wierd? Perhaps. But he does fetch quite well and even meows if I'm not tossing the toy to his timetable, heheh.

Oh, you mean it's weird to be thinking about quotes while playing with my cat?!?! I can see why you'd think that, but I was thinking, 'You can't teach an old dog new tricks'. Why? Well, I've not heard of many folks that have cats that fetch and most folks wouldn't even try, but I've had two that have found it enjoyable. Not only might an old dog learn new tricks, but even a cat can learn new tricks as well. I was following this tangent in my mind and I started to get hungry, so quotes and food start to flow into my brain. Man can't eat on bread alone, etc... and I thought, hmmmmm wonder if there's been a thread about that on my new-found site, The Fresh Loaf. I checked back 5 pages here and didn't see one, so I decided to create one.

There are tons out there, not the least of which is 'Let them eat CAKE!', but summary execution followed, so not so good. Then I remembered one of my favorites. It comes from Alton Brown's 'I'm Just Here for the Food', and that's really the only food reference, but I feel it's symbolic of my quest as a hobbyist baker. He quotes Leonard Rubenstein as follows:

"Curiousity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance." Suits me.

What's your favorite? You are what you eat? Beef, it's what's for dinner?

My 'miniature panther' named Magic was fond of crinkled ciggie wrappers. He was quite the character. He fetched until I got his sister, Wednesday. Then it seemed it was a task that was above him. I've never seen an animal with a vain ego until I met him. He never fetched again after. Smart as a whip, that one. If the food got low, he'd open all the cabinets in the kitchen.

Both are now in kitty Heaven. I do miss them both and their personalities, but One Spot is filling the void in his own, unique way. I walk to the garage out back, pull the car out and I see this little, slick, black and white mass of fur with golden saucers for eyes staring longingly at me from the bedroom window as I trundle off to work...

Mark Twain, the consumate, thinking, early American and author. I googled for a few of his and here they are.....

Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but afer all, the Scotchman would shake his head, and say, "Where's your haggis?" and the Fijan would sigh and say, "Where's your missionary?"- A Tramp Abroad

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.- Progress in Medicine speech, 1902

Only strangers eat tamarinds--but they only eat them once.- Roughing It

Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.- Roughing It

...and she entered the room and seated herself on the bench by the stove, where she began to warm herself and eat her breakfast. The elves said, "Give us, too, some of it." "Willingly," she said, and divided her bit of bread in two and gave them the half. They asked, "What dost thou here in the forest in the winter time, in thy thin dress?" "Ah," she answered, "I am to look for a basketful of strawberries, and am not to go home until I can take them with me." When she had eaten her bread, they gave her a broom and said, "Sweep away the snow at the back door with it." But when she was outside, the three little men said to each other, "What shall we give her as she is so good, and has shared her bread with us?" ...

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